Sony officially releases the PlayStation Mobile SDK

In this modern age of mobile gaming, it has been difficult for traditional console firms such as Sony and Nintendo to find their place in the market. Consoles are beginning to lose their identity and as a more immediate threat, portable sales have been significantly lacking over the past few years, falling under heavy competition from smartphones and tablets.

Despite all this, Sony is trying to move forward and become more flexible and has taken a big step today with the official release of the PlayStation®Mobile SDK and associated developer platform. The PlayStation®Mobile SDK is a software development kit we reported on earlier this year, that offers developers a package of easy-to-use libraries for accessing device interfaces, graphics, physics and sound on any PlayStation certified hardware, including the PS Vita.

The PlayStation®Mobile Developer Platform and SDK are essentially Apple's iOS developer program or Android's SDK for Sony certified devices; you can sign-up for $99 a year and publish as many titles to the Sony PlayStation Mobile store as you want, whilst the provided libraries make game development on the platform simpler and easier.

If you're interested in joining the Sony Mobile developer program, head on over to: PSM DevPortal.